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Four e-commerce trends for a winning 2017

Why Amazon sellers must stop selling like it’s 2016, written by Grace Macatangay

Amazon has made some major changes recently, where the survival of many Amazon sellers just got much slimmer. With these changes, we’ve learned some new lessons and have given thought about what you need to implement in 2017 to win on Amazon’s marketplace. Let’s dive into some 2017 tactics that we believe will drive your business forward in the New Year.

In 2017, only the strong survive on AmazonIn 2016, we lived through a very wild-west Amazon seller era and now Amazon has made moves to reign it in. With the Amazon incentivized review prohibition, we believe Amazon will empower third-party Amazon sellers (those that sell ON Amazon) to use it’s internal and trusted Vine Review program, which has been traditionally only available to first-party Amazon Vendor Central Clients (those that sell TO Amazon). Those outside Amazon review tools you were using will simply become Amazon deal sites, and many of them that didn’t have software will just disappear.

The Amazon Vine program in 2017 is worth leveraging immediatelyEvery Tom, Dick and Harry “private labeler” used to be able to source a product on Alibaba and game the system with fake reviews to boost their rank against competitors. Let’s face it: Those days are over and the playing field is now level, forcing sellers to pay for Amazon Sponsored Product Ads to get impressions and hopefully conversions.Read more